Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1898 — EVENTS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

J. Edward Addicks, president of the Bay State Gas Company, and Mrs. Ida .Carr Wilson were married at the home of the bride at Claymont, Del. Mr. and | Mrs. Addicks started south on a wed- | ding tour. C A $75,000 fire occurred at Coffeyville, | Kan., destroying the business houses of i' Bead Brothers, W. M. Condon & Co., the I Beader, Sloeson & Co. and tjie Jones-Bas- | «ett Company. Part of the loss was covI ered by insurance. | At the last meeting of the board of governors of McGill University in Montreal, Lord Strathcona announced his intention of endowing the new Victoria college for women, which he built at a cost of $250,000, to the amount of $1,000,000. , | Capt. James Nelson of the halibut sloop j Carolina and Barney Phale, a fisherman, | ment ashore on Kupriauoff Island, in I Portage bay, Alaska, to hunt for doer. I Phale never came back, and the captain |. tells that he was deliberately shot by Ing dians. Fire destroyed nn apartment house at | 223 Union street, Brooklyn, N. Y. Thirty I families were driven out in the cold and<t | is believed that George and Edith Griswold, young children of William Henry I Griswold, perished in the flanil's. Loss I $30,000. Henry Walke, a member of one of the | most prominent families in Virginia and a | Wealthy merchant in Norfolk, committed J jßiicide in New York by sheeting; - None ; of his many relatives in the city can asi sign any cause for his suicide, except pos- | tibly ill health. I The French Government has set apart t a site in Paris for the Lafayette monu- ; ment to be erected by the school children ; of the United States. The site is near the Palace of the Louvre, near Gambetta’s | statue, and was originally intended for a < Statue of Napoleon. I At the Old Bailey in London the trcas- | ury officials declined to prosecute Kate I Lyon and Mrs. Mills for alleged unlawful f conduct in connection with the death of I Harold Frederic, the American newspaper correspondent, and the defendants • were discharged from custody. ■ Fire at Maysville, Ky., burned out the whisky warehouse of J. W. Watson & I Co., and caused $20,000 damage to the | adjoining warehouse of J. 11. Bogers & ’ Co., besides causing n loss of $25,000 on ■ other buildings in the vicinity. Total loss, [ $60,000; insurance about one-half. j The Paris correspondent of the London Daily News says: “By influencing China . to delay the payment of the war indemnity to Japan the Russian Government will be enabled to acquire several Japanese warships now building abroad, which Japan will be unable to pay for at the stipulated time.” j- A combination of all the rubber coni cerns of Trenton, N. J., has been formed. . The companies consolidated are the Empire, Globe, Hamilton, Home, Mercer and ■ Trenton, with the United Rubber and the WhiteheadTompany. The capital is $5,000,000, and the object is to economize to meet competition. Fire at Winfield, Kan., caused a loss of $85,000. It started in the dry goods house of A. F. Dauber & Co., and spread to the adjoining building, occupied by P. H. Albright & Co., abstracts and loans; thence to the grocery stores of D. H. Sickafoos and M. E. Hanlon and the feed and seed store of 11. Silver & Co. Aggregate insurance, $20,000. . The Democrats won most of the places in the Boston municipal election. They elected their two board of apportionment candidates, the street commissioner, six of the nine members of the school board, six of the twelve aldermen, and forty-four of the seventy-three council men. The city gave a majority for license of 9,876, against one last year of 17,500. Princeton, N. J., is threatened with an epidemic of diphtheria. The first case reported was that of F. C. Goldsborough, *99, n student at the university. He was immediately transferred to the infirmary and all the members of the club were quarantined. They spent one night in the clubhouse and were bundled out of town by the faculty, three men being held as susi*ects.